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Issue Information

Issue ID

#000226

Issue Type

Issue

Issue Confirmations

Yes (12)No (0)

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Widespread Formatting Problems

Posted by
Riku Tryon
on Nov 30 2013 - 03:56 PM

Hey, so it has been noted by myself and a few others that formatting is malfunctioning. I personally have noted it in OTC, Bionicle RPG, Lego RPG, and a handful of other places. Colors, fonts, indents, et cetera are all malfunctioning, and displaying the code that would normally make them work correctly where it would normally be invisible without seeking it out.

I haven't seen a ticket for this already, but is there already was one, I apologize.

If this doesn't look too bad, see how it looks in topics with long posts of many paragraphs. For example, compare how this topic should look with how it is currently looking. It's a mess. And it's just one of many topics that are like this. That's what the forums look like right now: one big mess.

It's bad enough that ten years of forums were lost forever; let's not leave what little is left as an incoherent unreadable mess.

Some sort of error with semi-colons being inserted en masse into the coding of old posts is the issue; I'm just wondering how and why it got there in the first place.
Normally the coding would look something like this (replace { with [)

{color=#000000}Black Text{/color}

But it is instead

{color=#000000;}Black Text{/color}

Removing the semi-colons is easy enough but extremely tedious work. I would assume that there should be a relatively easy widespread fix for it though, since it all happened at once?

I'm glad you guys are trying to solve this. The error that Tex explained above had ruined an old comic topic that's long dead, but the error made the topic unusable! When this error is gone, good riddance.

Weird though - throw the text into BBCode mode and back and the font stuff auto-fixes, except for the missing paragraphs. The posts seem to be converting themselves to plain text, and the font tags seem to be changing to something new again.

The error seems to have popped up again; fixed posts and posts from the last two days or so are broken as well. This is weird. >.> Maybe the post customization coding is conflicting with something (although customized posts appear to be fine so I don't really know). I'm no expert at coding. xD

Is the problem with paragraph breaks part of this whole BBCode issue? And is it something that can be easily corrected?

What's odd is that, looking through the "Dino Attack: At War's End" topic, I'm seeing that most posts are broken, a few are correct, and there are even a few that are half-broken half-correct. For example, whereas all the posts on the first page were broken, if you look on the last page, #1961 has correct formatting, #1962 is broken, and #1991 seems to be somewhere in the middle.

If this is not something that can be easily corrected, then I'd like to have the ability to go back and try to fix the paragraph breaks in my own posts and asking my fellow players to do the same. But, as you can see, the topic is locked, which prevents me from doing so. I can probably request it to be temporarily re-opened, but before I do so, I need to know if this formatting issue can be corrected.

And this topic has been closed for nearly a whole year. Now, I don't pretend to know anything about formatting a website, but is it possible to use an older back-up of the site to correct the older topics such as these, while keeping the newer posts unaffected?

Formatting breakdown... again. This time I've noticed that even posts with nothing more than minimal coding (paragraphs, bold and/or italic text), have broken down as well. I'd thought it was merely the color and font that messed things up, but apparently not.